Awarded Guggenheim and National Endowment fellowships for fiction and creative nonfiction, Thomas Farber has been Visiting Distinguished Writer at the University of Hawai'i, Fulbright Scholar for Pacific Island Studies, recipient of the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and Rockefeller Foundation resident scholar at Bellagio. His many books include THE FACE OF THE DEEP, On Water, Learning to Love It, Through a Liquid Mirror with photographer Wayne Levin, A Lover's Question: Selected Stories, and BRIEF NUDITY. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and is Publisher/Editor in Chie...